Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] both " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN McConnochie and Arthur Stephenson were both satisfied with the outcome of the Edward Hanmer Memorial Chase after their horses fought out a thrilling finish in the three mile handicap at Haydock yesterday . |
| 2 | Furthermore , repeated wars have demonstrated the inability of outsiders to contain the virulence of the conflict once they felt this was desirable , except when the superpowers were both agreed on the necessity to rein in their clients . |
| 3 | In their original formulation these two schools were both more concerned , if not exclusively so , with macro-economic and in some cases social historical development . |
| 4 | This suggests that grievances were both political and social . |
| 5 | The two girls who were travelling in the car were both taken to hospital . |
| 6 | Miguel Montepeque and Antulio Castillo were both MAS leaders . |
| 7 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
| 8 | While the Jews were both Polish and German speakers , not all the Catholics were Polish , yet nearly all the Protestants were German . |
| 9 | It was a costly night against Motherwell , however , because Richard Gough and Trevor Steven were both taken off after suffering groin injuries which will cast doubt on their availability for the immediate future . |
| 10 | Claire and Nickie were both in the process of changing pills when they fell pregnant . |
| 11 | Gordon Middleton and Alan Hill were both given a conditional discharge . |
| 12 | Because these constructions were both eliminated at an early stage of the transformation to normal form , we have so far not needed any such laws . |
| 13 | Anne and Millie were both in the kitchen and they were having a serious talk as well . |
| 14 | Henceforth the local , stable community where relationships were both personal and persistent became no more than a rarity in the modern world . |
| 15 | Elizabeth Kell , wife of a Unitarian minister in Southampton , and Mrs Hampson of Plymouth were both extensively concerned with work among the poor . |
| 16 | The powers residing in herbs , stones , and aromas were both natural and divine . |
| 17 | My first two husbands were both called Steve . ’ |
| 18 | These images were both obtained at 20:12 . |
| 19 | Lastly , the authors noted that , as expected , the growth and transportation sectors were both highly sensitive to unanticipated inflation and changes in the expected real long-term rate of growth of sales . |
| 20 | Waite and Sutherland were both freed November 18 , 1991 . |
| 21 | Francis analysed the hierarchy of rooms and commented that the servants ' attic bedrooms were both smallest in size and farthest from the front door . |
| 22 | Full-time football and a career at a more glamorous club were both a matter of time . |
| 23 | The former world junior gold-medallists were both in last year 's world championships bronze-medal eight . |
| 24 | Under the current system the President was both head of state and head of government . |
| 25 | But because of the nature of the printing process , Rembrandt was both methodical and economical with the paper he used , buying a ream ( 480 sheets ) at a time , and often printing three etchings onto one sheet . |
| 26 | Killion was both elated and deflated . |
| 27 | It was necessary to do this since the roof was both low and decorated with swags of imitation seaweed ; a tall man was at a disadvantage . |
| 28 | ‘ His game was up , ’ said Mr Wakerley , who has told the jury that Sams was both Stephanie 's kidnapper and Julie 's murderer . |
| 29 | In the nature of the new medium , its transcriptions were unwittingly correct and — although exigencies like time might introduce abstraction — the evidence of a photograph was both mesmerisingly abundant and fundamentally verifiable . |
| 30 | Reviewing the seminar , Paul Murray said : ‘ Given the change in our portfolio , this important step in LASMO 's investor relations programme was both essential and effective and was just the first of such events — we will certainly be continuing this communications process in the future . ’ |